Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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These reviews, which were promoted in CBR social media, on our homepage, and in Pajiba Love, appear below by review publication date, not by date featured.

 

A Journey to the Center of Life

Gen: Perjalanan Menuju Pusat Kehidupan by Siddharta Mukherjee; Damaring Tyas W Palar

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Another (daft) reading challenge! A few years back I took the best part of 8 months to read through an Indonesian translation of The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer  (Kanker Biografi Suatu Penyakit.) I wasn’t sure if I was going to continue with the rest of the translations of Mukherjee’s books. But Google Play was nothing but persistent.  So there we have it; it was a little less laborious this time, but I have managed to make my way though the translation […]

“In my place will grow a feral rose, soft red petals hiding sharp white teeth”

Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab

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Bingo Square: B – Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil V.E. Schwab has created another enjoyable stand alone novel with Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil.  It’s about hunger, love, and rage.  Starting in 1532 Spain and concluding in 2019 Boston, Massachusetts.  Three women, across time become inextricably linked and, in Schwab’s words, this is their “toxic, lesbian vampire story”. Bury my bones in the midnight soil,   plant them shallow and water them deep,   and in my place will grow a feral rose,   soft red […]

Oh, let me have just a little bit of peril?

Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee

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CBR Bingo: Review When deciding what book to read next, I often read reviews of the book to see what I’m getting myself into. What’s somewhat interesting about this one is that it was actually a negative review that convinced me to read it. One particular reviewer didn’t like the book because it contained “so much climate activism”, “brief meat shaming”, “transgender characters”, and “reverse racism”, which was only successful in making me want to read it. Perilous Times by Thomas D. Lee is an Arthurian […]

This novel could have been an embroidered pillow (and also a rant about unnecessary italics)

The Measure by Nikki Erlick

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CBR 17 BINGO: Rec’d as I’ve seen this book recommended by a number of Goodreads reviews. I should have known on page 2 of this novel that I wasn’t going to enjoy it, because in that brief span of time the author had already italicized three words for emphasis. You may think that’s petty of me, but hold that thought–I’ll get back to it. The premise of The Measure is this: One spring day, everyone over the age of 22 wakes up to find a […]

The Path to Eo’s Dream

Red Rising by Pierce Brown

Golden Son by Pierce Brown

Morning Star by Pierce Brown

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Bingo Squares: School (Red Rising is set at the Institution, a school of sorts) Black (Golden Son but all of them have mostly black covers) Citizen (Morning Star but all of them deal with the idea of class and status and citizens’ rights/place in society) I’m not generally a big re-reader though I have been doing so more over the years than I used to when I was trying to read all the books. Yet, somehow this is now my third time reading the original Red […]

Plot Twist

Immortal Longings by Chloe Gong

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CRB Bingo Square “I”. When you know a book has a big huge twist in it, do you try to figure out what it is? I had read that there’s a big twist at the end of Chloe Gong’s Immortal Longings, and even though the book did a good job of setting it up, I was very surprised. So then I thought about what kind of reader I am in general, and I would say I tend to just read and let the plot wash […]



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